Youngster Millie Young has overcome yet another milestone just months after she was left fighting for her life.

The brave 12-year-old took to Facebook to let her hundreds of followers know that her eyes “are back to normal” after she was seriously hurt when she was hit by a car earlier this year.

Millie, from Pallister Park, in Middlesbrough , suffered multiple injuries in the accident on July 25, which involved a black Chevrolet Spark on Ladgate Lane, Middlesbrough.

Millie Young, 12, was put in hospital after being hit by a car. She is now able to eat and will be getting her cast off this week. A charity night is also being held on Saturday night in Liberty's in Middlesbrough. Millie is in James Cook University hospital.

She suffered seven broken ribs, a fractured skull, broken ankle, a collapsed lung and nerve damage to the right side of her body and was placed in an induced coma for almost two weeks.

But the bubbly Nunthorpe Academy pupil has gone on to make a miraculous recovery, with her dad Anthony saying “you wouldn’t even know there was anything wrong” with her.

He said: “She is doing absolutely fantastic. I’d say she was about 95% back to her usual chatty, argumentative self.

“Considering she was told it could take at least a couple of years to fully recover, she’s done pretty amazing.

“She still has a slight problem with her tongue because of some nerve damage, but that hasn’t stopped her.

“We are over the moon that her eyes have gone back to normal, no one would even know how badly injured she was, so she is over the moon.”

Millie was nominated as a child of courage, sponsored by Northumbrian Water, by family friend Lewisham Moore, who said: “Millie is a little superstar. She has shown the whole nation how brave she has been and she is an absolute credit to her family. You will always see her with that cheeky smile, no matter what.”